Article: Stop dissing the Washington Times! It's not just 'that Moonie paper' anymore. (Sun Myung Moon's newspaper is not influenced by the Universal Church very much today)(Cover Story)

IN I982, WHEN THE REVEREND SUN Myung Moon launched The Washington Times as a conservative alternative to The Washington Post, he spared no expense to establish his fledgling paper as a serious contender. Pulitzer Prize winners and ace reporters from the recently defunct Washington Star were lured to the Times with can't-refuse salary offers. Over $20 million was spent to convert an old warehouse on the edge of town into a state-of-the-art printing facility and gleaming headquarters. The result was a monument to Moon's eccentricity as much as to his wealth. The Times lobby is sculpted out of marble and trimmed in bronze; its newsroom boasts 18-foot cathedral ceilings and a ...

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